Comments on: Unexpected Erratics https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: geocatherder https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6728 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:39:19 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6728 What a joy, to take a walk and find geology you never knew you had! Can’t tell so much from the pick of the second erratic, but the first one looks to have boudinage in it. Very, very cool!

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By: Cujo359 https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6727 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:51:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6727 So, I’ve been replaced with a rock and a shutter timer, have I? It didn’t quite frame the eratic right, but at least that rock doesn’t demand a coffee break now and then, does it? ;)

Love that first eratic, BTW. It almost looks like someone painted it in camoflage, then buffed it.

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By: wrp https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6726 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:18:23 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6726 Seattle’s great that way. There’s a good-sized (~6m high) greenstone erratic sitting in somebody’s yard about a mile from my house. I believe it was scraped off a hillside somewhere up around Deception Pass. It makes a nice waypoint on a morning walk.

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By: fastlane https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6725 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:57:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6725 I clearly need to get out and explore more trails in the area (I just moved here last year). Any suggestions?

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By: Trebuchet https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6724 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:17:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6724 Lovely! I hope someone with some botanical knowledge will tell us what that is in the second picture.

It’s interesting how different the two boulders appear. The first one is smooth and almost green, the second much rougher and grayer. (Except for the moss, of course.) Granite?

We used to get a lot of towhees at our bird feeders, before the accursed raccoons made it impossible to have them. They were never on the actual feeders, always on the ground getting stuff the other birds had dropped.

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By: Gregory in Seattle https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6723 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:29:32 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6723 Nice discoveries!

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By: vel https://the-orbit.net/entequilaesverdad/2012/06/01/unexpected-erratics/#comment-6722 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:05:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/entequilaesverdad/?p=17105#comment-6722 and here i thought you would be talking about perhaps some idiot street preacher, fitting the unexpected erratic term :)

there’s a few erratics in western PA and some interesting periglacial features where sandstone has been exposed. as always love the geology posts!

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